Dale Randall Cooper

✡ Dale Cooper, Hebrew Name: Avraham   On tue. the 23rd of Nov 2021 the head of our small family and father to our boys Kyle and Jonah, Dale Cooper, Hebrew Name: Avraham passed away of covid-19, exactly 84 days after our eldest son Kyle.   Our family was and is devastated, totally gutted by the loss of two beautiful and magnificent members of our family so close together. Jonah and I still find it arduous to believe this is our reality. Kyle is buried in Gan Shalom as well.   Our family and friends described Dale as steadfast, tenacious, strong-minded and the trailblazers of our family. Dale and I ran our family business together for over 23 years, until Kyle eventually stepped in to work with his dad. They spent the next 5 years working exclusive together, creating a lot of memories, and becoming known as the father son duo. I thank G-d for allowing their relationship to blossom and grow closer during the last years of Kyle's adult life.   It was definitely planned for Dale and I to share this life together from day one. Dale and I knew of each other for 46 years, 1st officially meeting during swim lessons at the local pool in Cerritos CA when we were 3 years old. Right before Dale passed, we were sitting Shiva for our eldest son Kyle who had just passed. We were reminiscing back on our life together and it became clear that anyone (including ourselves) or situation that got in the way of Hashem's plan was dealt with, eventually, and Dale and I always ended up sitting right smack in front of each other.   Here is a perfect example: I had to move thousands of miles away to New England to live for a few years. Dale had moved a few times as well during this time with his parents. "Somehow" we both ended up in the same neighborhood on the other side of the neighborhood park, about a 1/4 mile from each other.  Our lives crisscrossed throughout our childhood, but not in a meaningful way to us, until we both started working together in high school.   In a blink of an eye, we were high school sweethearts, and together for 30 years prior to his death. The pandemic was cruel and heartbreaking to our family. Our eldest son Kyle passed away on the 31st of Aug. 2021 and is buried in this same cemetery as Dale. Sitting Shiva for Kyle, none of could predict how much more pain we would be enduring when Dale died, even today it feels like I'm not in my real life.   ✡ Dale is survived by the following family members:   ✡ Wife Desi Cooper,   ✡ Son Jonah Cooper,             Mother Janell Cooper,           ✡ Father Richard Cooper,   ✡ Brother Jeff Englehart,   He is preceded in death by his:     ✡ Grandmother Kitty Cooper,    ✡ Grandfather, Herman Cooper             Grandmother Geneva Car (adopted name: Janice Tuttle),              Grandfather, Herman Morris